Boston Bomber Suspected in Triple Homicide

As more information becomes known about the suspects in last week’s bombing of the Boston Marathon, an ABC report says that authorities believe Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older suspect in the attack who died in a shootout with police, may have been responsible for a triple homicide back in 2011. The three killed were Brenden Mess, one of Tsarnaev’s friends and sparring partners, as well as two Jewish men, Erik Weissman and Raphael Teken, whose affiliations with the others seem unknown. More on Mess and Tsarnaev:

The two sparred together at an Allston, MA gym called Wai Kru. The gym’s head trainer, John Allan, provided a statement to the Boston Globe via Facebook message saying that Tamerlan “came into the gym to spar from time to time.”

Tsarnaev and Mess lived just a few blocks apart in Cambridge, in the same predominantly Russian neighborhood. Authorities believe there were times Mess crashed at Tsarnaev’s apartment.

It was unclear if Tsarnaev knew the other men slain, Raphael Teken, 37, and Erik Weissman, 31.

The investigation of the extremely grisly murders–I’d advise against reading the report if you don’t have a strong constitution–yielded few leads over the course of the past year.

According to a few accounts, Teken grew up in Brookline, went to Brandeis, and was buried in Israel. Last week, friends of Erik Weissman wrote on a memorial page on Facebook that the senselessness of the marathon attack had reminded them of Weissman’s death, about which little remained known.

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To be precise, at the moment they are investigating whether there is any connection and they seem doubtful. On the other hand, police have no leads on these murders and despite how casually they were treated by the local press, they were highly unusual even in the working class neighborhood in which they occurred. Very low level pot dealers are not usually brutally murdered by knives. The fact that drugs were left untouched and in fact scattered over the victims bodies is consistent with something like a religiously inspired execution. It could have been a trial run. That idea is no more crazy than anything else at this point.

Another thing about this case- the way the victims were decapitated by being slashed at the throat. This is a trademark Chechen execution, which they have used on Russian soldiers for decades. Google “Russian soldier decapitation chechnya” if you want to see the videos yourself. How many drug dealers/muggers would go to this extreme while leaving behind all that money.

No? More likely the work of religious fundamentalist at work extracting “justice” for corrupting the morals of the younger brother than drug dealers at a turf war. Dealers would not have left money behind, let alone merchandise that could have been converted into more money.

Did you bother reading the details of how the three died and the condition in which their bodies were found — their throats slit and money and marijuana dumped on their corpses. Rivals in the drug trade might murder each other, but the money and drugs they would have scooped instead of using it to desecrate bodies. That’s the work of religious fanatics who have recently eschewed that sort of thing.

Obviously I hadn’t read it before I wrote my comment, but the scenario you’re envisioning of the morally driven Muslim thug killing in high-minded retribution and indignation doesn’t ring true. As I mention elsewhere, when the perps were done, the loot may have been too bloody to use.

The Saudi suspect was flown into Boston August 28, 2012 less than 2 weeks prior to this triple Assassination. Tsarnaev was assisted by a Saudi terror team and activated as “Sleeper Cell” terrorist. I imagine that there is video evidence of this triple near decapitation….

Christians
have pretty much all been expelled out of Lebanon and Syria…

All Greeks
and Armenians murdered out of Anatolia(Turkey…Turks came from the far east
with the Mongols)

All
Copts(real Egyptians) have been murdered by the muslim arabs…

Same as all
the Kabyles, Europeans and Tuaregs killed off the maghreb(north Africa)

All the
Zoroastrians of Persia(Iran) have been killed, half the population of the
balkans(greece, serbia) where murdered, half the population of
Spain(Andalusia), hundreds of millions murdered in India and Indonesia…

That is on
top of the hundred of millions of black Africans driven in slavery plus the
millions of Europeans enslaved by the Barbary pirates.

The Islam
monstrosity have destroyed more than a billion people and they are presently
subverting dozens of countries and preparing to destroy them too.

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